Group Members: Mansur Batchelor, Milly Fellows, Rowena Gordon, Jacob Pearson.


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Advantages:
  • We are taking all of our samples at one altitude which eliminates altitude as a variable
  • We have included all of the 3 different habitat types
  • Because of the positioning of the samples we should be able to test whether there has been a founder event
  • We can test to see if there is any gene flow between the populations in the different areas
Disadvantages:
  • If altitude affects polymorphism we will not be able to see these effects as the altitude is the same for all the sample sites
  • We have not combined our sampling with another group to get more results, this means that there may not be enough data for us to be able to reach any conclusions
  • There is only 1 sample from the woodland area, the different habitats are not equally represented which may affect any conclusions we come to regarding the woodland habitat sample